More than HALF this "cost" is paid by undocumented people because, as to education, they pay property taxes just as any other resident of California does (unless they are homeless).

As to the $4 billion spent on healthcare, in NE Ohio, my hospitals are supported by local and states taxes, as well as federal taxes and insurance proceeds, Obviously, undocumented people pay local and state taxes just as a residents do. California (like every state) pays 50% of the cost of its Medicaid program and some undocumented people do participate, but they do so at a rate 37% lower than citizens of their income levels,

This author includes the "remittance payments", or money earned by undocumented people and then sent to their families in Latin America. There is no lost tax cost associated with such payments.

This author includes about $5 billion for criminal justice costs associated with undocumented people. This is a lower cost than citizens impose, as undocumented people commit far fewer and less serious crimes. (We battled this topic out at length some time back, but I cannot find the thread.)

It's VERY easy to shade the truth on this subject dramatically by employing a little sloppy reasoning. FAIR, which published this artiucle, has an extreme anti-immigrant POPV and that bias also undercuts this author's conclusions.

I did. Let's just look at the cost of educating undocumented students. Do you disagree that their parents also pay property taxes, just as citizens do, via rent?

Nobody is denying those renting or owning pay property tax, the issue is do they pay enough to cover their children's costs especially when ELS classes are required to catch them up, or additional time is spent on those children because of language barriers?

Nobody is denying those renting or owning pay property tax, the issue is do they pay enough to cover their children's costs especially when ELS classes are required to catch them up, or additional time is spent on those children because of language barriers?

Probably. One of my biggest criticisms of public k-12 education is the funding is local, and therefore, irrational. School districts don't run deficits.